Ep 52: Singsongy Chimey Doggerel, ft. Joshua Mehigan

 
 

NB: Alan Shapiro and I will be reading poems, or interviewing each other, or fighting to the death, or something, tomorrow, Thursday, April 14, at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC. Also, apparently the podcast is actually called SLEERICKET. Currently burning and reprinting 8,000 branded beer koozies…

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

Accepting the Disaster and The Optimist by Joshua Mehigan

Root Quarterly

Schopenhauer

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell

Class by Paul Fussell

A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering that Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert

Morri Creech

Shane McCrae

Ryan Wilson

Langston Hughes

Large Bad Picture and Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke

Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden

What is Minor Poetry? by T. S. Eliot

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Poets & Writers

Pequod

– Sonnets 15, 18, 29, 30, 73, and 116

– Keats’ odes

Aaron Poochigian

Hamlet

King Lear

David Yezzi’s performance of King Lear

little joe gould by E. E. Cummings

–Michael Slip (sp?)

Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden

Twitter: @sleerickets, @BPlatzer

Email: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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